Survival Will Be Decided Through Blood and Steel

J.R. Tomlin has created fast paced, well written reads that any historical fiction lover will enjoy. These engrossing and rich with detail novels contain historic figures that are approachable and lifelike in a way that makes you root for them and understand their motivation. Enjoy!

On the dangerous stage of medieval Scotland, one man–in an English dungeon–stands between the Scots and anarchy.

Robert III, King of the Scots, is dead, and Scotland in 1406 is balanced on a knife’s edge. As he eyes the throne, King Robert’s ruthless half-brother, the Duke of Albany, has already murdered one prince and readies to kill young James Stewart, prince and heir to the crown.

James flees Scotland and his murderous uncle. Captured and imprisoned by the English, he grows to be a man of contradictions, a poet yet a knight, a dreamer yet fiercely driven. Hardened by his years in the Tower of London and haunted by his brother’s brutal murder, James is determined to recover his crown and end his uncle’s misrule. But the only way may be to betray Scotland and everything he believes in.

Scotland is occupied; Scottish resistance is crushed. Eighteen-year-old James Douglas can only watch as the Scottish freedom fighter, William Wallace, is hanged, drawn, and quartered. But even under the heel of a brutal English conqueror, the Scots may still have one hope for freedom: the rightful King of the Scots, Robert the Bruce. James swears fealty to the man he believes can lead the fight against English tyranny.

The Bruce is soon a fugitive, king only in name. The woman James loves is captured and imprisoned. Yet James believes their cause is not lost. He blazes a path in blood and violence, cunning and ruthlessness as he leads a guerrilla war to restore Scotland’s freedom. James knows if he is captured he will share Wallace’s fate, but what he truly fears is that he has become as merciless as the conqueror he fights.

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Scottish knight, James Douglas has at last won a small victory over the conquering English at the Battle of Loudoun Hill. His king, Robert the Bruce, commands James to continue his guerrilla war, using the only advantages they have: ambush and sneak attacks. Retreating deep into Ettrick Forest, James trains the men who flock to join his small, ragged army even as his attacks earn him the hatred and fear of the invaders.

Greatly outnumbered, James uses every ruthless trick he knows until finally Scottish freedom is within sight. But his foe, Edward II, King of England, is determined to defeat them, and Scotland’s survival will be decided through blood and steel.

James, Lord of Douglas, known to his foes as the Black Douglas, leads a flank of the Scottish army in crushing a vast invading English force at the waters of the Bannockburn. Fresh from battle, James revels in honors heaped on him by the Scots and in the hatred of the enemy. When King Robert the Bruce orders him to push their advantage and force the English to the peace table, they both know the only way James can do so is by fire and the sword–the only language King Edward of England understands.

Before William Wallace, before Robert the Bruce, there was another Scottish hero…

In 1296, newly knighted by the King of the Scots, Andrew de Moray fights to defend his country against the forces of the ruthless invader, King Edward Longshanks of England. After a bloody defeat in battle, he is dragged in chains to an English dungeon.

Soon the young knight escapes. He returns to find Scotland under the heel of a conqueror and his betrothed sheltering in the hills of the Black Isle. Seizing his own castle from the English, he raises the banner of Scottish freedom. Now he must lead the north of Scotland to rebellion in hope of defeating the English army sent to crush them.